{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"STL Hustle Insider","title":"Trey L. Scott on Emerging Business Leaders, Cash Mobs, and Meaningful Impact in St. Louis","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2411,"description":"Trey L. Scott on Emerging Business Leaders, Cash Mobs, and Meaningful Impact in St. Louis\nImpact is not always meaningful. But when it is intentional, organized, and rooted in community, it can change the way people see themselves, their neighborhoods, and their local businesses.\nIn this episode of STL Hustle Insider, Cortez Hustle sits down with Trey L. Scott, founder and co-founder of Emerging Business Leaders, for a conversation about East St. Louis roots, community activation, cash mobs, faith, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and what it means to come back home and pour into the people who shaped you.\nTrey shares how a promise made with his friends years ago became part of the foundation for Emerging Business Leaders, a collective focused on youth development, economic development, civic engagement, storytelling, business support, and helping overlooked people push their vision forward.\nThis is a conversation for entrepreneurs, organizers, community leaders, small business owners, faith-driven builders, and anyone who knows that local change does not happen by accident. It happens when people decide to get up, show up, and do the work.\nThe conversation covers Trey’s East St. Louis upbringing, his move to Glasgow Village, his time at Riverview Gardens and Lincoln University, his call to ministry, the formation of EBL, the power of cash mobs, the role of civic engagement, and the importance of supporting St. Louis businesses with more than words.\nTrey also opens up about personal loss, building a business to honor legacy, advocating for Clean Slate legislation, creating a mobile “new-age chamber of commerce,” and encouraging entrepreneurs to take the first step even when they feel burned out, unsupported, or unsure.\nIn This Episode\nCortez and Trey talk about:\nWhy meaningful impact requires intention\nTrey’s identity as a son, father, brother, entrepreneur, preacher, citizen, and follower of Christ\nGrowing up in East St. Louis and seeing the Arch across the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6RVt-BKuHUDpqnW2pjHJQNyi-e3ue1psZpoYkFxYe3Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85NmNi/Y2E5NTc0ODhjZDUx/ZmVhOWIxMThmOWJm/NjY3Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}